PRINCETON, N.J., July 22 -- Ed Witten is one of the 21st century's most celebrated physicists and with good reason -- many of his peers believe he is almost always right. A professor at Princeton ...

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For decades, physicists have been trying to combine quantum physics and general relativity into a single, unified theory. One of the leading contenders is string theory, an elegant vision in which ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The latest news from the Large Hadron Collider: scientists still ...

String theory proposes that the fundamental constituents of the universe are one-dimensional “strings” rather than point-like particles. What we perceive as particles are actually vibrations in loops ...

The $10 billion, 17-mile-long Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has lain dormant for two years while engineers revamped it to hurl particles at even greater speeds. Physicists think the near-light-speed ...

Supersymmetry in a three-dimensional topological superconductor: Ising magnetic fluctuations (denoted by red arrows) at the boundary couple to the fermions (blue cone). UC Santa Barbara physicist ...

On this day in 1843, the great Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton discovered a new kind of numbers called quaternions. Each quaternion has four parts, like the co-ordinates of a point in ...

I think it’s safe to say that Peter Woit was never going to like Gordon Kane’s latest book about string theory. Woit, who is at Columbia University, is a prolific anti-string-theory blogger and author ...

String theory has its supporters and its gainsayers among theoretical physicists. Even advocates admit that the theory could be entirely wrong (though naturally they don't think it is). In the ...